Image / Turnbull Canyon fire, northeast of Whittier

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Title: Turnbull Canyon fire, northeast of Whittier
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Plumes of white smoke pour out from Turnbull Canyon in the hills north of Whittier, and high into the skies. Several homes can be seen nestled along the mountain, and appear to be out of danger, as the white smoke indicates the fire has possibly been extinguished. Photograph dated August 31, 1955.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00087738
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b21_f3_i9 (Photographic print); KHAF 184-1
CARL0004851423
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4082
Subject: Mountains--California, Southern
Wildfires--California--Whittier
Fires--California--Whittier
Whittier (Calif.)
Whittier (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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